- US FDA approves blood test for colorectal cancer
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. FDA has approved Freenome’s blood-based colorectal cancer screening test for older adults, paving the way for partner Abbott to launch it in the U.S. this fall, the companies said on Monday.
Shares of Freenome were up about 4% in morning trading. … The test, SimpleScreen CRC, detects signals linked to colorectal cancer from DNA fragments circulating in the blood. Abbott is likely to market SimpleScreen to people who do not complete or decline stool-based screening tests, Brennan said.” (07/27/26) - France: Crowd subdues man who attacked three women with knives
Source: Guardian [UK]
“A man attacked three women with knives in Paris before bystanders pinned him to the ground and an off-duty police officer detained him, the French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, has said. The man attacked the three women, aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them, near Porte de Clichy on Monday, Nuñez said. A video shared on Snapchat and verified by Reuters showed a man with long black hair and wearing a cream tracksuit wielding one big knife in each hand and attempting to attack and stab a young woman. It was unclear if the woman was injured. … Another part of the video shows the same man in a tracksuit lying on the ground immobilised by bystanders, while the two knives are seen lying nearby on a pedestrian crossing. ‘It is Allah who commanded me,’ the man lying on the floor says in the video.” (07/27/26)
- McConnell (or someone pretending to be him) releases health update
Source: NBC News
“Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office released a health update Monday, saying he’s still not ready to return to in-person work in the Capitol after his June 14 hospitalization. ‘I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders,’ McConnell, R-Ky. [or someone impersonating him], said in a statement. ‘Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky this Saturday.’ … McConnell’s office did not provide a timeline for his return. He has missed the last 38 votes on the Senate floor, according to an NBC News review. The chamber is scheduled to be in session for the next two weeks before summer recess.” (07/27/26)
- Canada: Shot fired outside US Consulate in Toronto for second time this year
Source: Reuters
“At least one shot was fired outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last four months. Police officers, alerted by the sound of a gunshot, said they found evidence of a weapon having been fired outside the building on University Avenue. Police said that a white sedan was seen fleeing the scene and added that no injuries were reported. On March 10, several shots were fired at the same building, following three separate incidents in which gunshots were fired at synagogues …. In June police said, without providing any more details, that young people in the Toronto area were being paid to shoot at various targets, including synagogues, Jewish schools and the U.S. Consulate. Police arrested three people in connection with the March shooting, and one police officer was killed during the operation.” (07/27/26)
- “Free Stuff” in Norway Still Costs Half of Average Pay
Source: The Daily Economy
by Joakim Book“When American politicians or intellectuals promise Nordic welfare states, most people imagine this happening automatically or by taxing the rich, and everybody benefits. That’s not the case. The real Nordic model taxes earners more (45 percent in Denmark, 40 in Norway, 41 in Sweden, compared to 25 percent in the United States) and charging flat value added tax (VAT). Broad welfare states require broad tax bases; Nordic welfare states are financed not by billionaires but by ordinary workers.” (07/27/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/free-stuff-in-norway-still-costs-half-of-average-pay/
- Hegseth’s War on Leaks Is A War on Accountability
Source: Independent Institute
by Abigail R Hall“A whistleblower is an employee or a former employee who reveals information about wrongdoing inside an organization. As my coauthors and I have written, whistleblowers have played a critical role in exposing government abuses in democratic societies. Ideally, government officials act only to benefit the public. Should they act opportunistically or against the public interest, they would be punished through mechanisms like the voting booth, prosecution, or impeachment. Literature on the economics of politics, or ‘public choice,’ however, illustrates that real democratic institutions deviate from this ideal as a result of information asymmetries, in which some actors have more or better information than others, voter ignorance, and the organizational structures of politics. These imperfections are amplified in the national security state.” (07/27/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/27/hegseths-war-on-leaks-is-a-war-on-accountability/
- The American Presidency and Perpetual War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano“One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have increasingly treated military intervention as an executive prerogative rather than a congressional requirement. The last six presidents have not reflected distinct foreign policy doctrines but a uniparty continuum of executive overreach.” (07/27/26)
- No, Remote Work Is Not Making Us Miserable
Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown“People like working from home. It lets us avoid commutes. It lets us live closer to family. It seems especially good for the parents of young children, and it could even boost birth rates. This seems like an indisputable tech success story. Thanks to a plethora of modern technologies and applications—the internet, smartphones, VPNs, video calls, instant messaging platforms like Slack, cloud-based software and documents, and so on—remote work has become a possibility for more people than ever, and that’s a good thing. But are we all kidding ourselves about the benefits of remote work? Are we suffering from false consciousness? Do we only think we like it while it’s actually making us miserable somehow?” (07/27/26)
https://reason.com/2026/07/27/no-remote-work-is-not-making-us-miserable/
- The Economics of Status
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“It seems obvious that, if one’s concern is status rather than real income, we are in a zero sum game, that if my status increases relative to yours, yours must have decreased relative to mine. That point of view seems to support the approach to politics that sees it mainly as a question of who gets to benefit at the expense of whom, of which side who is on. Like many things that seem obvious, this one is false. It is true that my status is relative to yours. It does not, oddly enough, follow that if my status is higher than yours, yours must be lower than mine, or that if my status increases someone else’s must decrease. Status is not, in fact, a zero sum game.” (07/27/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-status
- Will Mamdani have the courage to stare down the teachers’ union boss?
Source: New York Post
by the Editorial Board“City Council Speaker Julie Menin says she’s far more responsible than Mayor Zohran Mamdani; here’s his chance to prove her wrong on at least one front: the council’s obscene bid to shower $10,000 bonuses on public-school teaching assistants. United Federation of Teachers boss Mike Mulgrew threatens ‘all-out war’ if the mayor vetoes the bill to award the cash, but the mayor owes the UFT nothing — and it’s his duty to the general public to say no. No city union should ever get a raise outside the collective-bargaining process: Since City Hall can’t cut union pay in other ways, it’s robbing the taxpayers if it doesn’t make labor negotiate for any hike.” (07/27/26)
- This European country launched a task force to target “hate speech.” Now a journalist who insulted politicians is going to prison.
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin“Vakho Sanaia, a journalist with Formula TV, wrote a Facebook post in June sarcastically encouraging others not to call [Georgian] Parliamentary Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and Member of Parliament Lado Bozhadze ‘dicks.’ On July 10, the Tbilisi City Court fined Sanaia around $2,300 for the post. Sanaia responded to the ruling with two more comments: ‘I wrote a post, saying ‘don’t call Papuashvili and Bozhadze d*cks’ [sic] and they fined me ₾6,000. Well, go ahead and call them that, then,’ and a joke that the decision meant the court was therefore declaring Papuashvili and Bozhadze ‘dicks.’ Sanaia soon learned the Division for Combating Hate Speech was pursuing an investigation of these two new posts, and last week he was sentenced to 14 days in prison on top of his original fine.” (07/27/26)
- California Dreaming
Source: Law & Liberty
by Christopher Calton“We talk about the housing crisis as if it is a national problem, but housing costs vary widely between states, and California tops the list. As of March 2026, the median sale price of a California home reached a staggering $854,000, roughly double the national average. This has forced many Californians to pack their bags and search for a better—or, at least, more affordable—life elsewhere. The California exodus is a harsh reminder that there are two ways to solve the housing crisis: the state can either facilitate housing construction, or it can say goodbye to its residents. If California cannot bring prices down by adding to the supply, population flight will eventually lower prices on the demand side.” (07/27/26)
- The World Is Watching the United States. So Are Workers.
Source: Inequality.org
by Luc Triangle & Cathy Feingold“For generations, the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home.” (07/27/26)
https://inequality.org/article/the-world-is-watching-the-united-states-so-are-workers/
- The Housewives Underground
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“I just finished reading a new book relating to the JFK assassination entitled The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery by Kaitlyn Tiffany, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic. It is a great read and, in fact, once I got into it, I couldn’t put it down. The book tells the story of three women — Sylvia Meagher, Shirley Martin, and Maggie Field — who were part of the first generation of assassination researchers who questioned the official narrative of the JFK assassination.” (07/27/26)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-housewives-underground/
- America’s tipping culture has gone from rewarding service to fee insanity
Source: Fox News
by Carol Roth“I love old-school tipping; that is, letting a service provider know that you appreciate their outstanding service, whatever the realm may be, with a generous gratuity. It’s a great way for individuals to reward service providers who work hard and to signal your personal appreciation of the effort they have put in to your interaction. However, tipping has morphed from a signal of good work to something that resembles a socialist experiment or the dreaded school group project: everyone expects the same outcome, regardless of their effort or the service they deliver.” (07/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/americas-tipping-culture-gone-rewarding-service-fee-insanity
- The Worst Lady
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson“Donald Trump is a terrible president, and he’s an even worse first lady. Things are falling apart in Iran, oil has been back over $100 a barrel, inflation is still inflating, and the president is out there spending his time with … party planning and decorating. Dwight Eisenhower he is not. Never mind that he is decorating badly—doesn’t this guy have other things to do? If he is not out there acting out an aneurysm in front of the White House press corps, he’s playing interior decorator and party planner, poking around at the edges of some low-stakes cultural stuff, and being the world’s most embarrassingly failed social climber. Isn’t that the kind of thing for which presidents have, you know, wives?” (07/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/trump-president-first-lady-decorating/
- Haunted by History: Lawrence’s Ghost Speaks for Himself … and to Us
Source: Informed Comment
by Eamonn Gearon“Few figures from the First World War carry the force of Lawrence of Arabia, from the pages of Seven Pillars of Wisdom to a be-robed Peter O’Toole in David Lean’s 1962 epic. The legend swallowed the man almost as soon as the First World War ended. The shadow cast over both the historical Lawrence and the First World War in the Middle East more broadly, has, arguably, yet to be fully lifted. Examining this mix of man, myth, and movie, is a central goal of Lawrence of Arabia and ME, a solo show making its world premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.” (07/27/26)
https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/haunted-history-lawrences.html
- How Net Zero Helped Bring Down British Steel
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes“The UK government has completed the forced nationalization of British Steel, the company that owns the Scunthorpe plant in Lincolnshire, the last facility in the United Kingdom capable of producing virgin steel in traditional blast furnaces. Celebrated by sectors on both the left and the right, this move represents a definitive transfer of risk from private shareholders to taxpayers, ignoring that many of the problems that led to it were largely created by the state itself and its aggressive green policies.” (07/27/26)
https://fee.org/articles/how-net-zero-helped-bring-down-british-steel/
- What Brexit Taught Europe
Source: Law & Liberty
by Julio Crespo-MacLennan“Brexit was one of the defining political events of the early twenty-first century. Ten years ago, the world was shaken by the images of Prime Minister David Cameron announcing his resignation after losing the Brexit referendum. The vote transformed Britain’s relationship with Europe and offered a powerful lesson about the unpredictability of referendums in the age of social media and fake news.” (07/27/26)
- Moved by Meaning
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders“A mind may be persuaded by explanation, but the will is moved by meaning.” (07/27/26)
- Reason Roundtable, 07/27/26
Source: Reason
“The Democrats Have a Socialism Problem.” (07/27/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/07/27/the-democrats-have-a-socialism-problem/
- Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 07/27/26
Source: Freedom Works
“Rodger Friedman, Political Author/Critic ‘Democratic Socialists of America.'” (07/27/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-07-27_zfw007272026.mp3
- Rising, 07/27/26
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on Sen. Rand Paul uncovering journal entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci from the start of the COVID pandemic.” (07/27/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/27/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“As Bibi Comes Back To DC, Trump’s Out Of Options For Iran.” (07/27/26)